The Day I Lost My Shadow
Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage
Soudade Kaadan / Feature Narrative / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / 90 min / Original Language: Arabic / Interests: Women, Drama, War, Fantasy, Road Trip
Synopsis
Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012. Between water outages and power cuts, she decides to take a day off work to go in search of a place to buy a gas cylinder. Along the way, she meets Jalal and his sister Reem, who are also looking for gas, and they agree to share a taxi for the trip. At a checkpoint, the soldiers suspect their driver to be an activist. Fearing arrest, he takes off running, abandoning his passengers in a small village on the outskirts of Damascus. There, Sana discovers that it is normal for people to lose their shadows every day, as if they lose something of themselves once they experience the war.
Credits
- Director
- Soudade Kaadan
- Screenwriter
- Soudade Kaadan
- Producer
- Amira Kaadan
About the Director
Soudade Kaadan studied theatre criticism at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Syria, and graduated from Institut d’études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques (IESAV), at Saint Joseph University, Lebanon. She has received international awards for her documentaries, including the Martine Filippi Award - URTI Grand Prix for Author’s Documentaries, Monte-Carlo Television Festival, and the Muhr Arab Documentary Award in DIFF. Her latest documentary ‘Obscure’ premiered at the 2017 CPH:DOX Festival. Soudade is currently in post-production of her first feature fiction film, ‘The Day I Lost My Shadow’.